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Remember when John Aravoisis outed a male prostitute who was posing as a journalist in the White House Press Briefings asking Ari Fleischer an easy question whenever he was in trouble?

The mainstream media reaction then was to hold a panel on blogger ethics.

The fact that the administration was using a fake journalist to avoid hard questions should have been reported. The fact that a prostitute was being used suggests that a member of the administration was a client. None of that mattered to the establishment media because reporting on any of it would put their access at risk. So they held a panel on blogger ethics.

I’d like to go on the record as saying “I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT JOURNALISTIC ETHICS IN GAMING.”
Because: I just want good games. And I get them. Plenty of them. I buy them after they have been on the market long enough for the general reaction to become clear; I talk to my other gamer friends (I’m the only guy on my WoW raid team) and I buy the games people say are good. Easy-peasy.

Even if you wanted to assume near 100% corruption in the game journalism, the game of the year from IGN is probably going to be pretty good.